EP1258996A1 - Lossless encoding and decoding system - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a lossless encoding and decoding system and more particularly to a lossless encoding and decoding system including a lossless encoding apparatus and a lossless decoding apparatus, in which encoded data can be decoded on a real-time basis
- a digital audio signal is obtained from an analog audio signal by means of a pulse code modulation method in order to represent audio information with the number of channels, the number of bits and a sampling frequency according to the DVD-audio standards
- a digital audio signal includes redundancy data it is required to use lossless compression encoding methods, in order to improve (i.e. shorten) a recording time of a digital audio signal with respect to a digital versatile disc (DVD) and improve a bitrate.
- a representative example of lossless compression encoding methods is the Huffman coding method, in which input data having a higher frequency of occurrence is assigned with a relatively shorter length of codeword and input data having a lower frequency of occurrence is assigned with a relatively longer length of codeword.
- a digital audio signal is losslessly compressed by the Huffman coding method it is more efficiently coded than the case that only a linear pulse code modulation (PCM) method is used.
- PCM linear pulse code modulation
- a predictor is used in the case that input data has predictable properties.
- the predictor determines prediction data corresponding to new input data using previous input data, and then uses a method for compressing a difference between the prediction data and the new input data.
- a predictor is additionally used in the above-described lossless compression unit an encoding efficiency with respect to digital audio signal can be further enhanced.
- a method of processing audio data comprising:
- the combining step comprises moving the excessive data amounts to the predetermined data units which are previous in sequence to the predetermined data units having the excessive data amounts.
- the method further comprises outputting the predetermined data units in sequence subsequent to combining the excessive data amounts with the data amounts of the ones of the predetermined data units which are less than the maximum bitrate.
- the method preferably further comprising:
- a sum of each predetermined data unit to which the corresponding excessive data amount is combined and the corresponding excessive data amounts is less than the maximum bitrate.
- the combining step comprises moving the excessive data amounts to the predetermined data units which are previous in sequence to the predetermined data units having the excessive data amounts, wherein a sum of each predetermined data unit to which the corresponding excessive data amount is moved and the corresponding excessive data amounts is less than the maximum bitrate.
- a method of losslessly encoding audio data comprising:
- the method preferably further comprising sequentially outputting the encoded audio data at an output bitrate which is less than or equal to the maximum bitrate.
- the predetermined data units are frames
- the outputting of the fourth data together with the corresponding second data comprises adding the fourth data of a first one of the frames to a second frame of the second data preceding the first frame of the fourth data.
- the second frame precedes the first frame by a number of frames greater than one.
- the method preferably further comprising controlling outputting of the encoded audio data so that the second data, both the second and fourth data, or the third data is output from the output buffer in a same sequence as the outputting of the encoded audio data in sequence.
- the method preferably further comprising adding same identification information to the third data and the fourth data corresponding to the third data of a same predetermined data unit.
- the predetermined data units are frames
- the identification information is a frame number of one of the frames.
- the method preferably further comprising determining the maximum bitrate based upon a bitrate resulting from the lossless compression encoding of all of an amount of the audio data on an audio track of a recording medium.
- the method preferably further comprising determining whether a sum of the fourth data of the first frame and the second data of the second frame combined exceed the maximum bitrate prior to adding the fourth data of the first frame with the second data of the second frame.
- a lossless encoding and/or decoding method of encoding and/or decoding audio data comprising:
- the method preferably further comprising determining the maximum bitrate based upon a bitrate resulting from the lossless compression encoding of all of an amount of the input audio data on an audio track of a recording medium.
- the method preferably further comprising sequentially outputting the encoded audio data at an output bitrate which is less than or equal to the maximum bitrate.
- the predetermined data units are frames
- the encoding and decoding method further comprises adding the fourth data of a first one of the frames to a second frame of the second data preceding the first frame of the fourth data.
- the method preferably further comprising determining whether a sum of the fourth data of the first frame and the second data of the second frame combined exceeds the maximum bitrate prior to adding the fourth data of the first frame with the second data of the second frame.
- a lossless processing method of processing audio data comprising:
- the excessive data amounts of the second predetermined data units are moved to the previous ones of the first data units which precede the second data units by a number of frames, respectively.
- the method preferably further comprising determining whether the excessive amounts of the predetermined data units and the previous ones of the first data units combined exceed the maximum bitrate prior to adding the excessive amounts of the predetermined data units and the previous ones of the first data units.
- the method preferably further comprising outputting the predetermined data units in the same sequence as an input sequence thereof.
- the method preferably further comprising adding identification information to the data amounts of the second predetermined data units having the maximum bitrate and the same identification information to the corresponding excessive data amounts which are moved to the previous ones of the first predetermined data units.
- the method preferably further comprising:
- a lossless processing method of processing audio data comprising:
- the method preferably further comprising:
- a lossless processing apparatus for processing encoded audio data, comprising:
- a method of decoding audio data which has been losslessly compression encoded in sequence predetermined data units of the encoded audio data have data amounts in excess of a maximum bitrate, and the excessive data amounts have been combined with data amounts of ones of the predetermined data units which are less than the maximum bitrate, the method comprising:
- the excessive data amounts and portions of the corresponding predetermined data units not greater than the maximum bitrate and other than the excessive data amounts have identification information added thereto, the step of losslessly restoring the encoded audio data comprising:
- the method preferably further comprising:
- the method preferably further comprising:
- the moving of the excessive data amounts comprises moving the excessive data amounts to the corresponding predetermined data units originally having data amounts in excess of the maximum bitrate which are subsequent in sequence to the ones of the predetermined data units which are combined with the excessive data amounts and are less than the maximum bitrate.
- the moving of the excessive data amounts comprises moving the excessive data amounts to the corresponding predetermined data units originally having data amounts in excess of the maximum bitrate which are subsequent in sequence to the ones of the predetermined data units which are combined with the excessive data amounts and are less than the maximum bitrate.
- a lossless decoding method of decoding data to restore audio data comprising:
- a lossless encoding apparatus comprising: an input buffer for storing input audio data; a lossless compression unit for losslessly compression encoding the audio data stored in the input buffer in units of predetermined data and outputting the encoded data in sequence; an output buffer for storing the encoded audio data output from the lossless compression unit; and a bitrate controller for dividing plurality of the encoded audio data stored in the output buffer into first data having a data amount exceeding the maximum bitrate and second data having a data amount less than the maximum bitrate dividing the first data into third data being the encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate and fourth data being the encoded data of the portion exceeding over the maximum bitrate and controlling the output buffer so that the fourth data is output at the same time when the second data is output.
- said buffer sequentially outputs the data stored by said bitrate controller at the output which is equal to or less than the maximum bitrate.
- Said bitrate controller preferably adds the fourth data to the frame of the second data preceding the frame of the fourth data output bitrate.
- Said bitrate controller may control said output buffer (15) in such a manner that the second data, both the second and fourth data or the third data can be output in the same sequence as that by which the encoded audio data is supplied from said lossless compression unit.
- said bitrate controller adds same identification information to the third data and the fourth data corresponding to the third data.
- Said identification information may be a frame number.
- a lossless decoding apparatus comprising:
- a lossless encoding and decoding system comprising a lossless encoding apparatus and a lossless decoding apparatus
- the lossless encoding apparatus comprises: a first input buffer for storing input audio data; a lossless compression unit for losslessly compression-encoding the audio data stored in the first input buffer in units of predetermined data and outputting the encoded data in sequence; a first output buffer for storing the encoded audio data output from the lossless compression unit; and a bitrate controller for dividing plurality of the encoded audio data stored in the output buffer into first data having a data amount exceeding the maximum bitrate and second data having a data amount less than the maximum bitrate dividing the first data into third data being the encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate and fourth data being the encoded data of the portion exceeding over the maximum bitrate, and controlling the first output buffer so that the fourth data is output at the same time when the second data is output
- the lossless decoding apparatus comprises: a
- an input buffer 11 stores digital audio data input from an external source and supplies the stored audio data to a lossless compression unit 13 in the same sequence as its input sequence.
- the lossless compression unit 13 losslessly compresses and encodes the audio data supplied from the input buffer 11 in each predetermined data unit.
- a frame is used as a predetermined data unit.
- the lossless compression unit 13 losslessly compresses and encodes audio data by means of a lossless compression encoding method such as a well-known Huffman encoding method.
- the audio data encoded by the lossless compression unit 13 is input to an output buffer 15.
- the output buffer 15 stores the input encoded audio data.
- the output buffer 15 stores the encoded audio data in such a pattern that the encoded audio data corresponding to a random frame can be distinguished from the encoded audio data corresponding to the other frames.
- a bitrate controller 17 stores a maximum bitrate determined based on a bitrate resulting from losslessly encoding the whole audio data corresponding to an audio track. The bitrate controller 17 controls the output buffer 15 in such a manner that the encoded audio data stored in the output buffer is output at an output bitrate which is equal to or less than the maximum bitrate.
- the bitrate controller 17 divides a plurality of the encoded audio data stored in the output buffer 15 into first data having a data amount exceeding the maximum bitrate and second data having a data amount not exceeding the maximum bitrate.
- first data the encoded audio data of the frames of frame numbers 6, 7 and 10 shown in Figure 2 is defined as first data.
- the bitrate controller 17 divides respective first data into third data being the encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate and fourth data being the encoded audio data of the portion exceeding the maximum bitrate.
- the fourth data is shown as hatching portions in Figure 2.
- the bitrate controller 17 adds identification information by which the fourth data and the third data corresponding to the fourth data can be distinguished from data of the other frame, to the fourth data and the third data corresponding to the fourth data. Then the bitrate controller 17 controls the output buffer 15 in such a manner that the fourth data is output from the output buffer 15 at the same time as that of the second data of the other frame. In this embodiment of the present invention, the bitrate controller 17 selects a particular frame temporally preceding the frame of the fourth data, and controls the output buffer 15 in such a manner that the fourth data is output at the same time as that of the second data of the selected frame.
- the bitrate controller 17 selects a preceding frame in order to add the fourth data based on the bitrate corresponding to a predetermined number of frames preceding the frame of the fourth data.
- the output buffer 15 outputs the second data both the second and fourth data, or the third data in the form of a bitstream, in correspondence to a respective frame of the encoded audio data supplied from the lossless compression unit 13.
- the output buffer 5 outputs the bitstream as shown in Figure 3.
- the frames which are not hatched are frames output from the output buffer in the same sequence as that input to the output buffer 15 from the lossless compression unit 13 and the hatched portions show the fourth data added to the second data of (the frame temporally preceding the original frame.
- FIG 4 is a block diagram showing a lossless decoding apparatus for restoring the bitstream output from the lossless encoding apparatus of Figure 1.
- an input buffer 41 stores bitstream data generated in the encoding apparatus of Figure 1 in the same sequence as its input sequence.
- a buffer controller 43 controls the input buffer 41 in order to output the data stored in the input buffer 41 to a lossless restorer 45, under the control of the buffer controller 43, the second data is output to the lossless restorer 45 without change, and the fourth data is combined with the third data and the first data corresponding to the fourth data, based on identification information added to the third data and the fourth data. The combined first data is output to the lossless restorer 45.
- the buffer controller 43 determines the sequence of the first data and the second data both output to the lossless restorer 45 based on the second data and the third data.
- the second data precedes the third data among the data of the bitstream input to the input buffer 41
- the second data is output to the lossless restorer 45 and then the first data corresponding to the third data is output to the lossless restorer 45.
- the input buffer 41 can supply the stored data to the lossless restorer 45 so that the lossless restorer 45 can restore data without any delay.
- the lossless restorer 45 performs a reverse process of a signal processing in the above-described lossless compression unit 13 in order to restore audio data, and outputs the restored audio data to an output buffer 47.
- the output butter 47 stores the audio data supplied from the lossless restorer 45 and supplies the stored audio data to a following device (not shown).
- the lossless encoding and decoding system including the lossless encoding apparatus and the lossless decoding apparatus controls the bitrate of the encoded audio data so that the encoded audio data can be decoded on a real-time basis.
- the present invention can be used in a real-time system with limited bitrate as in a disc playback device or a communications channel.
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- The present invention relates to a lossless encoding and decoding system and more particularly to a lossless encoding and decoding system including a lossless encoding apparatus and a lossless decoding apparatus, in which encoded data can be decoded on a real-time basis
- In general, a digital audio signal is obtained from an analog audio signal by means of a pulse code modulation method in order to represent audio information with the number of channels, the number of bits and a sampling frequency according to the DVD-audio standards However, since a digital audio signal includes redundancy data it is required to use lossless compression encoding methods, in order to improve (i.e. shorten) a recording time of a digital audio signal with respect to a digital versatile disc (DVD) and improve a bitrate.
- A representative example of lossless compression encoding methods is the Huffman coding method, in which input data having a higher frequency of occurrence is assigned with a relatively shorter length of codeword and input data having a lower frequency of occurrence is assigned with a relatively longer length of codeword. In the case that a digital audio signal is losslessly compressed by the Huffman coding method it is more efficiently coded than the case that only a linear pulse code modulation (PCM) method is used.
- Meanwhile a predictor is used in the case that input data has predictable properties. The predictor determines prediction data corresponding to new input data using previous input data, and then uses a method for compressing a difference between the prediction data and the new input data. In the case that such a predictor is additionally used in the above-described lossless compression unit an encoding efficiency with respect to digital audio signal can be further enhanced.
- When the above-described conventional lossless encoding method is used a bitrate of the encoded data is varied according to the degree of the property and random of input data although a bitrate of the input data is constant. Thus since conventional lossless coding methods require a very large capacity of buffers in the case of data compression and decompression it is difficult to encode or decode data in real-time. In addition although a buffer capacity is increased in order to solve the above problem a delay in decoding still remains.
- With a view to solve or reduce the above problems, it is an aim of embodiments of the present invention to provide a lossless encoding apparatus for encoding data on a real-time basis.
- It is another aim to provide a lossless decoding apparatus for decoding encoded data on a real-time basis.
- It is still another aim to provide a lossless encoding and decoding system having a lossless encoding apparatus and a lossless decoding apparatus in which encoded data can be decoded on a real-time basis.
- According to an aspect of the invention a method of processing audio data, comprising :
- losslessly compression encoding the audio data in sequence;
- determining whether predetermined data units of the
encoded audio data have data amounts in excess of a
maximum bitrate; and
combining the excessive data amounts with data amounts of ones of the predetermined data units which are less than the maximum bitrate. -
- Preferably, the combining step comprises moving the excessive data amounts to the predetermined data units which are previous in sequence to the predetermined data units having the excessive data amounts.
- Preferably, the method further comprises outputting the predetermined data units in sequence subsequent to combining the excessive data amounts with the data amounts of the ones of the predetermined data units which are less than the maximum bitrate.
- The method preferably further comprising:
- moving the excessive data amounts back to the
predetermined data units having data amounts in excess of
the maximum bitrate; and
losslessly restoring the encoded subsequent to moving the excessive data amounts back to the predetermined data units having data amounts in excess of the maximum bitrate. -
- Preferably, a sum of each predetermined data unit to which the corresponding excessive data amount is combined and the corresponding excessive data amounts is less than the maximum bitrate.
- Preferably, the combining step comprises moving the excessive data amounts to the predetermined data units which are previous in sequence to the predetermined data units having the excessive data amounts, wherein a sum of each predetermined data unit to which the corresponding excessive data amount is moved and the corresponding excessive data amounts is less than the maximum bitrate.
- According to an aspect of the invention a method of losslessly encoding audio data, comprising:
- losslessly compression encoding the audio data in
units of predetermined data and outputting the encoded
audio data in sequence; and
distinguishing each predetermined data unit of the encoded audio data as first data having a data amount exceeding a maximum bitrate or second data having a data amount less than the maximum bitrate, dividing the first data into third data being the encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate and fourth data being the encoded audio data of a portion of the first data exceeding the maximum bitrate, and outputting the fourth data together with the corresponding second data. -
- The method preferably further comprising sequentially outputting the encoded audio data at an output bitrate which is less than or equal to the maximum bitrate.
- Preferably, the predetermined data units are frames, and the outputting of the fourth data together with the corresponding second data comprises adding the fourth data of a first one of the frames to a second frame of the second data preceding the first frame of the fourth data.
- Preferably, the second frame precedes the first frame by a number of frames greater than one.
- The method preferably further comprising controlling outputting of the encoded audio data so that the second data, both the second and fourth data, or the third data is output from the output buffer in a same sequence as the outputting of the encoded audio data in sequence.
- The method preferably further comprising adding same identification information to the third data and the fourth data corresponding to the third data of a same predetermined data unit.
- Preferably, the predetermined data units are frames, and the identification information is a frame number of one of the frames.
- The method preferably further comprising determining the maximum bitrate based upon a bitrate resulting from the lossless compression encoding of all of an amount of the audio data on an audio track of a recording medium.
- The method preferably further comprising determining whether a sum of the fourth data of the first frame and the second data of the second frame combined exceed the maximum bitrate prior to adding the fourth data of the first frame with the second data of the second frame.
- According to an aspect of the invention a lossless encoding and/or decoding method of encoding and/or decoding audio data, comprising:
- losslessly compression encoding the audio data in units of predetermined data and outputting the encoded audio data in sequence;
- distinguishing each predetermined data unit of the encoded audio data as first data having a data amount exceeding a maximum bitrate or second data having a data amount less than the maximum bitrate, dividing the first data into third data being the encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate and fourth data being the encoded audio data of a portion of the first data exceeding the maximum bitrate, adding identification information to the third data and fourth data to indicate which of the third data and fourth data are from the same predetermined data units, and controlling the encoded audio data so that the fourth data is output together with the second data, and the second through fourth data are output as a bitstream;
- losslessly restoring the bitstream, to generate the audio data, such that the second data having no identification information among the bitstream is losslessly restored and the third data and fourth data having the same identification information are combined and losslessly restored.
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- The method preferably further comprising determining the maximum bitrate based upon a bitrate resulting from the lossless compression encoding of all of an amount of the input audio data on an audio track of a recording medium.
- The method preferably further comprising sequentially outputting the encoded audio data at an output bitrate which is less than or equal to the maximum bitrate.
- Preferably, the predetermined data units are frames, and the encoding and decoding method further comprises adding the fourth data of a first one of the frames to a second frame of the second data preceding the first frame of the fourth data.
- The method preferably further comprising determining whether a sum of the fourth data of the first frame and the second data of the second frame combined exceeds the maximum bitrate prior to adding the fourth data of the first frame with the second data of the second frame.
- According to an aspect of the invention a lossless processing method of processing audio data, comprising:
- losslessly compression encoding the audio data in units of predetermined data and outputting the encoded audio data in sequence; and
- determining first ones of the predetermined data units having data amounts less than a maximum bitrate, second ones of the predetermined data units having data amounts greater than the maximum bitrate, moving data amounts of the second predetermined data units in excess of the maximum bit rate to previous ones of the first predetermined data units, and outputting the first predetermined data units with no excessive data amounts added thereto, the first predetermined data units with the excessive data amounts from the second predetermined data units, and the second predetermined data units having data amounts of the maximum bitrate.
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- Preferably, the excessive data amounts of the second predetermined data units are moved to the previous ones of the first data units which precede the second data units by a number of frames, respectively.
- The method preferably further comprising determining whether the excessive amounts of the predetermined data units and the previous ones of the first data units combined exceed the maximum bitrate prior to adding the excessive amounts of the predetermined data units and the previous ones of the first data units.
- The method preferably further comprising outputting the predetermined data units in the same sequence as an input sequence thereof.
- The method preferably further comprising adding identification information to the data amounts of the second predetermined data units having the maximum bitrate and the same identification information to the corresponding excessive data amounts which are moved to the previous ones of the first predetermined data units.
- The method preferably further comprising:
- losslessly restoring the bitstream, to generate the
audio data; and
moving the excessive data amounts previously moved to the previous ones of the first predetermined data units back to the corresponding second data units. -
- According to an aspect of the invention a lossless processing method of processing audio data, comprising:
- losslessly compression encoding the audio data in sequence; and
- outputting the encoded audio data on a real-time basis.
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- The method preferably further comprising:
- losslessly restoring the encoded audio data output; and
- outputting the restored audio data on the real-time basis.
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- According to an aspect of the invention a lossless processing apparatus for processing encoded audio data, comprising:
- decoding and losslessly restore the encoded audio
data; and
outputting the restored audio data on a real-time basis. -
- According to an aspect of the invention a method of decoding audio data which has been losslessly compression encoded in sequence, predetermined data units of the encoded audio data have data amounts in excess of a maximum bitrate, and the excessive data amounts have been combined with data amounts of ones of the predetermined data units which are less than the maximum bitrate, the method comprising:
- moving the excessive data amounts back to the corresponding ones of the predetermined data units originally having data amounts in excess of the maximum bitrate; and
- losslessly restoring the encoded audio data subsequent to moving the excessive data amounts back to the corresponding predetermined data units originally having data amounts in excess of the maximum bitrate.
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- Preferably, the excessive data amounts and portions of the corresponding predetermined data units not greater than the maximum bitrate and other than the excessive data amounts have identification information added thereto, the step of losslessly restoring the encoded audio data comprising:
- moving the excessive data amounts back to the corresponding predetermined data units using the identification information of the excessive data amounts and the portions of the corresponding predetermined data units.
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- The method preferably further comprising:
- outputting a sequence of the predetermined data units based upon ones of the predetermined data units which do not have excessive data amounts, and the portions of the predetermined data units which are not greater than the maximum bit rate.
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- The method preferably further comprising:
- outputting a sequence of the predetermined data units based upon ones of the predetermined data units which do not have excessive data amounts, and portions of the predetermined data units which are not greater than the maximum bit rate.
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- Preferably, the moving of the excessive data amounts comprises moving the excessive data amounts to the corresponding predetermined data units originally having data amounts in excess of the maximum bitrate which are subsequent in sequence to the ones of the predetermined data units which are combined with the excessive data amounts and are less than the maximum bitrate.
- Preferably, the moving of the excessive data amounts comprises moving the excessive data amounts to the corresponding predetermined data units originally having data amounts in excess of the maximum bitrate which are subsequent in sequence to the ones of the predetermined data units which are combined with the excessive data amounts and are less than the maximum bitrate.
- According to an aspect of the invention a lossless decoding method of decoding data to restore audio data, comprising:
- losslessly restoring the audio data, to generate the
restored audio data; and
controlling the lossless restoring so that first data having no identification information among the audio data is losslessly restored and second data having identification information is combined with third data having the same identification information and losslessly restored, wherein the first data has a data amount by which a result obtained by lossless encoding of the audio data of a predetermined data unit does not exceed a maximum bitrate, and the second data and third data form fourth data by which a result obtained by lossless encoding of the input audio data of a same predetermined data unit exceeds the maximum bitrate, and wherein the second data is encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate among the fourth data and the third data is encoded audio data of the portion exceeding the maximum bitrate among the fourth data. -
- According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a lossless encoding apparatus comprising: an input buffer for storing input audio data; a lossless compression unit for losslessly compression encoding the audio data stored in the input buffer in units of predetermined data and outputting the encoded data in sequence; an output buffer for storing the encoded audio data output from the lossless compression unit; and a bitrate controller for dividing plurality of the encoded audio data stored in the output buffer into first data having a data amount exceeding the maximum bitrate and second data having a data amount less than the maximum bitrate dividing the first data into third data being the encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate and fourth data being the encoded data of the portion exceeding over the maximum bitrate and controlling the output buffer so that the fourth data is output at the same time when the second data is output.
- Preferably, said buffer sequentially outputs the data stored by said bitrate controller at the output which is equal to or less than the maximum bitrate.
- Said bitrate controller preferably adds the fourth data to the frame of the second data preceding the frame of the fourth data output bitrate.
- Said bitrate controller may control said output buffer (15) in such a manner that the second data, both the second and fourth data or the third data can be output in the same sequence as that by which the encoded audio data is supplied from said lossless compression unit.
- Preferably, said bitrate controller adds same identification information to the third data and the fourth data corresponding to the third data.
- Said identification information may be a frame number.
- According to another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a lossless decoding apparatus comprising:
- an input buffer for storing input data in its input sequence; a lossless restorer for losslessly restoring data output from the input buffer and generating audio data a buffer controller for controlling the input buffer in a manner that first data having no identification information among the data stored in the input buffer is supplied to the lossless restorer and second data having identification information combined with third data having identification information is supplied to the lossless restorer, wherein the first data has a data amount by which a result obtained by lossless encoding audio data of a predetermined data unit does not exceed a maximum bitrate, and the second data and third data constitutes fourth data; by which a result obtained by lossless encoding audio data of a corresponding predetermined data unit exceeds the maximum bitrate, and wherein the second data is encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate among the fourth data and the third data is encoded audio data of the portion exceeding the maximum bitrate among the fourth data: and an output buffer for storing and outputting audio data generated in the lossless restorer
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- According to a still further aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a lossless encoding and decoding system comprising a lossless encoding apparatus and a lossless decoding apparatus wherein the lossless encoding apparatus comprises: a first input buffer for storing input audio data; a lossless compression unit for losslessly compression-encoding the audio data stored in the first input buffer in units of predetermined data and outputting the encoded data in sequence; a first output buffer for storing the encoded audio data output from the lossless compression unit; and a bitrate controller for dividing plurality of the encoded audio data stored in the output buffer into first data having a data amount exceeding the maximum bitrate and second data having a data amount less than the maximum bitrate dividing the first data into third data being the encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate and fourth data being the encoded data of the portion exceeding over the maximum bitrate, and controlling the first output buffer so that the fourth data is output at the same time when the second data is output, and wherein the lossless decoding apparatus comprises: a second input buffer for storing input data in its input sequence; a lossless restorer for losslessly restoring data output from the second input buffer and generating audio data; a buffer controller for controlling the second input buffer in a manner that first data having no identification information among the data stored in the second input buffer is supplied to the lossless restorer and second data having identification information combined with third data having identification information is supplied to the lossless restorer, wherein the first data has a data amount by which a result obtained by lossless encoding audio data of a predetermined data unit does not exceed a maximum bitrate, and the second data and third data constitutes fourth data by which a result obtained by lossless encoding audio data of a corresponding predetermined data unit exceeds the maximum bitrate, and wherein the second data is encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate among the fourth data and the third data is encoded audio data of the portion exceeding the maximum bitrate among the fourth data; and a second output buffer for storing and outputting audio data generated in the lossless restorer.
- For a better understanding of the invention, and to show how embodiments of the same may be carried into effect, reference will now be made, by way of example, to the accompanying diagrammatic drawings, in which:
- Figure 1 is a block diagram showing a lossless encoding apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
- Figure 2 is a conceptional view for explaining the operation of the bitrate controller shown in Figure 1;
- Figure 3 shows the structure of a bitstream output from the output buffer shown in Figure 1; and
- Figure 4 is a block diagram showing a lossless decoding apparatus corresponding to the lossless encoding apparatus of Figure 1.
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- Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which elements having the same reference numerals perform the same functions.
- In Figure 1 showing a lossless encoding apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an
input buffer 11 stores digital audio data input from an external source and supplies the stored audio data to alossless compression unit 13 in the same sequence as its input sequence. Thelossless compression unit 13 losslessly compresses and encodes the audio data supplied from theinput buffer 11 in each predetermined data unit. In this embodiment of the present invention, for example, a frame is used as a predetermined data unit. Also, in the present invention, thelossless compression unit 13 losslessly compresses and encodes audio data by means of a lossless compression encoding method such as a well-known Huffman encoding method. The audio data encoded by thelossless compression unit 13 is input to anoutput buffer 15. Theoutput buffer 15 stores the input encoded audio data. Theoutput buffer 15 stores the encoded audio data in such a pattern that the encoded audio data corresponding to a random frame can be distinguished from the encoded audio data corresponding to the other frames. Abitrate controller 17 stores a maximum bitrate determined based on a bitrate resulting from losslessly encoding the whole audio data corresponding to an audio track. Thebitrate controller 17 controls theoutput buffer 15 in such a manner that the encoded audio data stored in the output buffer is output at an output bitrate which is equal to or less than the maximum bitrate. - Referring to Figure 2, the operation of the
bitrate controller 17 will be described below. Thebitrate controller 17 divides a plurality of the encoded audio data stored in theoutput buffer 15 into first data having a data amount exceeding the maximum bitrate and second data having a data amount not exceeding the maximum bitrate. By the above division, for example, the encoded audio data of the frames offrame numbers bitrate controller 17 divides respective first data into third data being the encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate and fourth data being the encoded audio data of the portion exceeding the maximum bitrate. The fourth data is shown as hatching portions in Figure 2. Thebitrate controller 17 adds identification information by which the fourth data and the third data corresponding to the fourth data can be distinguished from data of the other frame, to the fourth data and the third data corresponding to the fourth data. Then thebitrate controller 17 controls theoutput buffer 15 in such a manner that the fourth data is output from theoutput buffer 15 at the same time as that of the second data of the other frame. In this embodiment of the present invention, thebitrate controller 17 selects a particular frame temporally preceding the frame of the fourth data, and controls theoutput buffer 15 in such a manner that the fourth data is output at the same time as that of the second data of the selected frame. In this case, thebitrate controller 17 selects a preceding frame in order to add the fourth data based on the bitrate corresponding to a predetermined number of frames preceding the frame of the fourth data. In response to the control of thebitrate controller 17, theoutput buffer 15 outputs the second data both the second and fourth data, or the third data in the form of a bitstream, in correspondence to a respective frame of the encoded audio data supplied from thelossless compression unit 13. Thus, in the case of the frames having the numbers shown in Figure 2 theoutput buffer 5 outputs the bitstream as shown in Figure 3. In Figure 3, the frames which are not hatched are frames output from the output buffer in the same sequence as that input to theoutput buffer 15 from thelossless compression unit 13 and the hatched portions show the fourth data added to the second data of (the frame temporally preceding the original frame. - Figure 4 is a block diagram showing a lossless decoding apparatus for restoring the bitstream output from the lossless encoding apparatus of Figure 1. In Figure 4, an
input buffer 41 stores bitstream data generated in the encoding apparatus of Figure 1 in the same sequence as its input sequence. Abuffer controller 43 controls theinput buffer 41 in order to output the data stored in theinput buffer 41 to alossless restorer 45, under the control of thebuffer controller 43, the second data is output to thelossless restorer 45 without change, and the fourth data is combined with the third data and the first data corresponding to the fourth data, based on identification information added to the third data and the fourth data. The combined first data is output to thelossless restorer 45. Here, thebuffer controller 43 determines the sequence of the first data and the second data both output to thelossless restorer 45 based on the second data and the third data. Thus, in the case that the second data precedes the third data among the data of the bitstream input to theinput buffer 41, the second data is output to thelossless restorer 45 and then the first data corresponding to the third data is output to thelossless restorer 45. As a result, theinput buffer 41 can supply the stored data to thelossless restorer 45 so that thelossless restorer 45 can restore data without any delay. - The
lossless restorer 45 performs a reverse process of a signal processing in the above-describedlossless compression unit 13 in order to restore audio data, and outputs the restored audio data to anoutput buffer 47. Theoutput butter 47 stores the audio data supplied from thelossless restorer 45 and supplies the stored audio data to a following device (not shown). - Since it is apparent to those who are skilled in the art that the above lossless encoding apparatus and the above lossless decoding apparatus can be employed in the lossless encoding and decoding system although it has not been shown in the drawing and described in the specification, the detailed description thereof will not be omitted.
- As described above, the lossless encoding and decoding system including the lossless encoding apparatus and the lossless decoding apparatus controls the bitrate of the encoded audio data so that the encoded audio data can be decoded on a real-time basis. Thus, the present invention can be used in a real-time system with limited bitrate as in a disc playback device or a communications channel.
- The reader's attention is directed to all papers and documents which are filed concurrently with or previous to this specification in connection with this application and which are open to public inspection with this specification, and the contents of all such papers and documents are incorporated herein by reference.
- All of the features disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract and drawings), and/or all of the steps of any method or process so disclosed, may be combined in any combination, except combinations where at least some of such features and/or steps are mutually exclusive.
- Each feature disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract and drawings), may be replaced by alternative features serving the same, equivalent or similar purpose, unless expressly stated otherwise. Thus, unless expressly stated otherwise, each feature disclosed is one example only of a generic series of equivalent or similar features.
- The invention is not restricted to the details of the foregoing embodiment(s). The invention extends to any novel one, or any novel combination, of the features disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract and drawings), or to any novel one, or any novel combination, of the steps of any method or process so disclosed.
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- A method of processing audio data, comprising :losslessly compression encoding the audio data in sequence;
determining whether predetermined data units of the encoded audio data have data amounts in excess of a maximum bitrate; and
combining the excessive data amounts with data amounts of ones of the predetermined data units which are less than the maximum bitrate. - The processing method according to claim 1, wherein the combining step comprises moving the excessive data amounts to the predetermined data units which are previous in sequence to the predetermined data units having the excessive data amounts.
- The processing method according to claim 1 or claim 2, further comprising outputting the predetermined data units in sequence subsequent to combining the excessive data amounts with the data amounts of the ones of the predetermined data units which are less than the maximum bitrate.
- The processing method according to any preceding claim, further comprising:moving the excessive data amounts back to the predetermined data units having data amounts in excess of the maximum bitrate; andlosslessly restoring the encoded input audio data subsequent to moving the excessive data amounts back to the predetermined data units having data amounts in excess of the maximum bitrate.
- The processing method according to any preceding claim, wherein a sum of each predetermined data unit to which the corresponding excessive data amount is combined and the corresponding excessive data amounts is less than the maximum bitrate.
- The processing method according to any preceding claim, wherein the combining step comprises moving the excessive data amounts to the predetermined data units which are previous in sequence to the predetermined data units having the excessive data amounts, wherein a sum of each predetermined data unit to which the corresponding excessive data amount is moved and the corresponding excessive data amounts is less than the maximum bitrate.
- A method of losslessly encoding audio data, comprising:losslessly compression encoding the audio data in units of predetermined data and outputting the encoded audio data in sequence; anddistinguishing each predetermined data unit of the encoded audio data as first data having a data amount exceeding a maximum bitrate or second data having a data amount less than the maximum bitrate, dividing the first data into third data being the encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate and fourth data being the encoded audio data of a portion of the first data exceeding the maximum bitrate, and outputting the fourth data together with the corresponding second data.
- The lossless encoding method according to claim 7, further comprising sequentially outputting the encoded audio data at an output bitrate which is less than or equal to the maximum bitrate.
- The lossless encoding method according to claim 7 or claim 8, wherein the predetermined data units are frames, and the outputting of the fourth data together with the corresponding second data comprises adding the fourth data of a first one of the frames to a second frame of the second data preceding the first frame of the fourth data.
- The lossless encoding method according to claim 9, wherein the second frame precedes the first frame by a number of frames greater than one.
- The lossless encoding method according to any one of claims 7 to 10, further comprising controlling outputting of the encoded audio data so that the second data, both the second and fourth data, or the third data is output from the output buffer in a same sequence as the outputting of the encoded audio data in sequence.
- The lossless encoding method according to any one of claims 7 to 11, further comprising adding same identification information to the third data and the fourth data corresponding to the third data of a same predetermined data unit.
- The lossless encoding method according to claim 12, wherein the predetermined data units are frames, and the identification information is a frame number of one of the frames.
- The lossless encoding method according to any one of claims 7 to 13, further comprising determining the maximum bitrate based upon a bitrate resulting from the lossless compression encoding of all of an amount of the audio data on an audio track of a recording medium.
- The lossless encoding method according to any one of claims 9, 10 or 11 to 14 when dependent on claim 9, further comprising determining whether a sum of the fourth data of the first frame and the second data of the second frame combined exceed the maximum bitrate prior to adding the fourth data of the first frame with the second data of the second frame.
- A lossless encoding and/or decoding method of encoding and/or decoding audio data, comprising:losslessly compression encoding the audio data in units of predetermined data and outputting the encoded audio data in sequence;distinguishing each predetermined data unit of the encoded audio data as first data having a data amount exceeding a maximum bitrate or second data having a data amount less than the maximum bitrate, dividing the first data into third data being the encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate and fourth data being the encoded audio data of a portion of the first data exceeding the maximum bitrate, adding identification information to the third data and fourth data to indicate which of the third data and fourth data are from the same predetermined data units, and controlling the encoded audio data so that the fourth data is output together with the second data, and the second through fourth data are output as a bitstream;losslessly restoring the bitstream, to generate the audio data, such that the second data having no identification information among the bitstream is losslessly restored and the third data and fourth data having the same identification information are combined and losslessly restored.
- The lossless encoding and/or decoding method according to claim 16, further comprising determining the maximum bitrate based upon a bitrate resulting from the lossless compression encoding of all of an amount of the audio data on an audio track of a recording medium.
- The lossless encoding and/or decoding method according to claim 16 or claim 17, further comprising sequentially outputting the encoded audio data at an output bitrate which is less than or equal to the maximum bitrate.
- The lossless encoding and/or decoding method according to anyone of claims 16 to 18, wherein the predetermined data units are frames, and the encoding and decoding method further comprises adding the fourth data of a first one of the frames to a second frame of the second data preceding the first frame of the fourth data.
- The lossless encoding and/or decoding method according to claim 19, further comprising determining whether a sum of the fourth data of the first frame and the second data of the second frame combined exceeds the maximum bitrate prior to adding the fourth data of the first frame with the second data of the second frame.
- A lossless processing method of processing audio data, comprising:losslessly compression encoding the audio data in units of predetermined data and outputting the encoded audio data in sequence; anddetermining first ones of the predetermined data units having data amounts less than a maximum bitrate, second ones of the predetermined data units having data amounts greater than the maximum bitrate, moving data amounts of the second predetermined data units in excess of the maximum bit rate to previous ones of the first predetermined data units, and outputting the first predetermined data units with no excessive data amounts added thereto, the first predetermined data units with the excessive data amounts from the second predetermined data units, and the second predetermined data units having data amounts of the maximum bitrate.
- The lossless processing method according to claim 21, wherein the excessive data amounts of the second predetermined data units are moved to the previous ones of the first data units which precede the second data units by a number of frames, respectively.
- The lossless encoding method according to claim 22, further comprising determining whether the excessive amounts of the predetermined data units and the previous ones of the first data units combined exceed the maximum bitrate prior to adding the excessive amounts of the predetermined data units and the previous ones of the first data units.
- The lossless processing method according to claim 21, 22 or 23, further comprising outputting the predetermined data units in the same sequence as an input sequence thereof.
- The lossless processing method according to any one of claim 21 to 24, further comprising adding identification information to the data amounts of the second predetermined data units having the maximum bitrate and the same identification information to the corresponding excessive data amounts which are moved to the previous ones of the first predetermined data units.
- The lossless processing method according to any one of claims 21 to 25, further comprising:losslessly restoring the bitstream, to generate the audio data; andmoving the excessive data amounts previously moved to the previous ones of the first predetermined data units back to the corresponding second data units.
- A lossless processing method of processing audio data, comprising:losslessly compression encoding the audio data in sequence; andoutputting the encoded audio data on a real-time basis.
- The lossless processing method according to claim 27, further comprising:losslessly restoring the encoded audio data output; andoutputting the restored audio data on the real-time basis.
- A lossless processing apparatus for processing encoded audio data, comprising:decoding and losslessly restoring the encoded audio data; andoutputting the restored audio data on a real-time basis.
- A method of decoding audio data which has been losslessly compression encoded in sequence, predetermined data units of the encoded audio data have data amounts in excess of a maximum bitrate, and the excessive data amounts have been combined with data amounts of ones of the predetermined data units which are less than the maximum bitrate, the method comprising:moving the excessive data amounts back to the corresponding ones of the predetermined data units: originally having data amounts in excess of the maximum bitrate; andlosslessly restoring the encoded audio data subsequent to moving the excessive data amounts back to the corresponding predetermined data units originally having data amounts in excess of the maximum bitrate.
- The method according to claim 30, wherein the excessive data amounts and portions of the corresponding predetermined data units not greater than the maximum bitrate and other than the excessive data amounts have identification information added thereto, the step of losslessly restoring the encoded audio data comprising:moving the excessive data amounts back to the corresponding predetermined data units using the identification information of the excessive data amounts and the portions of the corresponding predetermined data units.
- The method according to claim 31, further comprising:outputting a sequence of the predetermined data units based upon ones of the predetermined data units which do not have excessive data amounts, and the portions of the predetermined data units which are not greater than the maximum bit rate.
- The method according to any one of claims 30 to 32, further comprising:outputting a sequence of the predetermined data units based upon ones of the predetermined data units which do not have excessive data amounts, and portions of the predetermined data units which are not greater than the maximum bit rate.
- The method according to any one of claims 30 to 33, wherein the moving of the excessive data amounts comprises moving the excessive data amounts to the corresponding predetermined data units originally having data amounts in excess of the maximum bitrate which are subsequent in sequence to the ones of the predetermined data units which are combined with the excessive data amounts and are less than the maximum bitrate.
- The method according to any one of claims 31 to 34, wherein the moving of the excessive data amounts comprises moving the excessive data amounts to the corresponding predetermined data units originally having data amounts in excess of the maximum bitrate which are subsequent in sequence to the ones of the predetermined data units which are combined with the excessive data amounts and are less than the maximum bitrate.
- A lossless decoding method of decoding data to restore audio data, comprising:losslessly restoring the audio data, to generate the restored audio data; andcontrolling the lossless restoring so that first data having no identification information among the audio data is losslessly restored and second data having identification information is combined with third data having the same identification information and losslessly restored, wherein the first data has a data amount by which a result obtained by lossless encoding of the audio data of a predetermined data unit does not exceed a maximum bitrate, and the second data and third data form fourth data by which a result obtained by lossless encoding of the input audio data of a same predetermined data unit exceeds the maximum bitrate, and wherein the second data is encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate among the fourth data and the third data is encoded audio data of the portion exceeding the maximum bitrate among the fourth data.
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